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by huetius 5y ago
Something I’ve been thinking about is whether the current technological landscape, through positive and negative pressures, can enable a revival of small-scale production. Basically, making more of what you consume at home, in your neighbo
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by huetius 5y ago
This is interesting. Commenting mostly to save, but also, I (rank amateur, not to be taken seriously) spent some time looking at radiocarbon dating and was alarmed at the inconstancy of, and sensitivity to, calibration curves in the analysi
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by huetius 5y ago
Idk, any of the big ones. Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, e.g.
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by huetius 5y ago
Would you (or someone else in-the-know) help me, an out-of-the-loop person, understand why Facebook is reviled so much more intensely on this site than other social media platforms?
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by huetius 5y ago
There seems to me to be a substantive difference between the monotheistic attitude towards the dead body as an object of reverence, and this, in which the body is an object of use. It may have historical precedent, but I don’t think these t
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by huetius 5y ago
It’s been awhile since I’ve been near this space, but I know that several LTE-A vendors were at one point working on the low-bandwidth RAN tech for IOT in the 5G spec. Not sure if that changes anything about your post, but at least it’s no
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by huetius 5y ago
That’s probably true in many, or even most cases. Even so, what do you think about the example of the formerly successful company that now can’t retain engineers? Even if the benefits were entirely intangible, this still ultimately has ha
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by huetius 5y ago
I can sympathize with this, given that truly high-functioning, collaborative work environments are anything but ubiquitous, but I think that these kinds of environments are still the ideal, however rare and difficult to achieve they are. I
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by huetius 5y ago
Ymmv, but I like the both/and approach. I’ve seen high quality codebases where the benefits of both are leveraged: ORM for simple queries, idiomatic code reuse; raw sql for complex or performance critical queries. Being smart about wh
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by huetius 5y ago
Did you write this with your “knows things” brain, or your “fitness maxing” brain? ;) I think, from talking to you, that we both believe in a “knows things” brain: we can know things, including that there are limitations to our knowledge, a
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by huetius 5y ago
I am very much in favor of human rights. They are among the last, public vestiges of the “old wives tales” you denigrate, and could be problematized at any time. This could come from the political left, the political right, or some as-yet
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by huetius 5y ago
In what way is the object in your first premise perceptible to the subject in Mr. Watts’ quote? It would require a faculty “higher” than the brain, which is restricted in access to only a subset of the object, no?
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by huetius 5y ago
Then the same applies to Mr. Watts’ statement, and we are therefore under no obligation to take it as true.
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by huetius 5y ago
If you deny any form of transcendence, which is the case in the positivist, technocratic culture of the West, then this is the inevitable conclusion.
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by huetius 5y ago
I’m not sure that’s true. There is a certain strand in postmodernist/critical thought that, by consistently seeking to unmask power, recovers the perennial, “religious” questions. Some examples might include Horkheimer’s later works,